Research Database Directory

Every research database, reviewed.

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Bloomberg Terminal

The financial industry's command line — real-time markets, news, and analytics, at a price to match.

Tier 2 CorporateSubscription

PubMed

The free, authoritative front end to the world's biomedical literature.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree

Google Scholar

The free front door to scholarship — vast, frictionless, and quietly imprecise.

Tier 2 AcademicFree

Zotero

The free, open-source reference manager most researchers already have — and underuse.

Tier 2 ToolsFree

arXiv

The original preprint server — open science before the term existed.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree

bioRxiv / medRxiv

The preprint servers that moved the life and health sciences to publish-first.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree

Scite

Citation context, not just citation counts — does the literature support this claim or contradict it?

Tier 2 ToolsSubscription

DOAJ

The vetted directory of trustworthy open-access journals — the antidote to predatory publishing.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree

Semantic Scholar

The AI-native index that reads papers so you don't have to read all of them.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree

EndNote

The veteran reference manager, deeply embedded in institutional workflows.

Tier 2 ToolsSubscription